Whittington Health
Senior Clinical Trials Pharmacy Technician
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Exciting Opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician
An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic and supportive Pharmacy Clinical Trials team at Whittington Health.
In this role, you will play a key part in the delivery and management of clinical trials, ensuring compliance with standard operating procedures, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and relevant regulatory standards. This is an ideal position for someone with strong attention to detail, organizational and interpersonal skills who is looking to make a real impact in a research-focused environment.
You will be part of a collaborative team that works closely with pharmacy colleagues and multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust and wider region. As part of a forward-thinking and diverse pharmacy department, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to ongoing service improvements and support the expansion of research activity across the Trust.
At the Whittington, we are committed to innovation and continuous development in how we deliver care, ensuring our services are always focused on the best outcomes for our patients.
Key Responsibilities
- Operational Management: Be responsible for the operational management of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Service.
- Investigational Medicinal Product (IMP) Management: Lead the IMP management, including receipt, dispensing, handing out, returns, temperature excursion reports, and any other relevant activities.
- Compliance Assurance: Provide specialist advice and assurance that all IMP processes comply with GCP, MHRA requirements, and Trust governance standards, acting as a key point of contact during monitoring visits and inspections.
- Collaborative Liaison: Act as a specialist liaison and work with members of the Pharmacy Clinical Trials Team, Research and Development (R&D) team, and drug companies to review and assess the operational and clinical resources needed to open and run clinical trials for a variety of specialties.
- Financial Management: Be responsible for the financial management of Pharmacy Clinical Trials, including costing, income recovery, and financial governance.
- Procedure Development: Develop and review departmental clinical trial work and standard operating procedures.
- Communication: Coordinate the effective communication of clinical trials-related matters to the wider Pharmacy department and other healthcare professionals.
- Patient Information: Provide written and oral information to patients regarding clinical trials IMPs.
- Data Analysis: Lead the collection, analysis, and reporting of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data for benchmarking and identify any variations or concerns for discussion.
- Decision Making: Make independent decisions regarding IMP management, protocol deviations, and risk mitigation, escalating complex issues where appropriate.
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Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organization, we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion, and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
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Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Jonathan Flor
- Job Title: Lead Pharmacist - Finance, Business & Performance
- Email Address: jonathan.flor@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 020 7288 5021
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